A hand crank-generator-battery system does not require care to prevent damage to the battery in most cases. The battery's IV curve takes care of all the limiting required, and you're not going to overcharge the battery because it takes one hell of a lot more cranking to overcharge the battery than it does to pump it up enough to get it to run for a few minutes.
Fees include application and maintenance, not just issuance. It costs money to run the patent office, and these fees bear some relation to the costs incurred, which is as it should be.
If it's bad, we'll be seeing the bastard son of Black Hole and Tron. If it's good, it'll be due to plot, directing, acting, and avoiding the temptation to think like children. Disney is a professional organization that caters to a large variety of audiences, and there's a fair chance that they won't screw the pooch.
Episode IV was a breakthrough in SF films that set a standard for everything that followed. The immense new vision far overwhelms the importance of the more mature themes and defeatist attitude of Episode V.
I would have been delighted to see Lando die. His causing Han's suffering far outweighs any good he did later. Buckling under pressure is not the mark of a hero.
The pod racers are technically brain-dead. Even in the magical pseudo-science universe of Star Wars, the physical configuration is below moronic. It's emblematic of the massive stupidities that permeate episode I and make it painful to watch.
It was Richard Nixon who said to those whose support of him was inadequate, "Watch what I do, not what I say". Well, here's Obama, who'll say anything to maintain his support by his dupes: he has no intention to do anything except increase his own power.
The people who support government-issued fiat currency are supporting the government's ability to defraud the holders of that money by inflating it. Any change, or no change, involves winners and losers, so the complaint that gold investors would get rich is invalid and indicative of jealousy.
The proper phrase is "glosses over". Rand clearly states that defense is one of the few valid functions of government; so you're just lying like most of her critics.
"Ayn Rand" was her pen name. She was married to Frank O'Connor, and it probably would have been ILLEGAL for her to apply for benefits under the name Ayn Rand.
Do you know what a corporation is? That it is a different concept than "company" or "business"? Do you understand that most charities are incorporated?
Not that I think the system is good, but if you are healthy, live in a low cost of living area, own your own home, aren't a spendthrift, and have accumulated a lifetime's work worth of "Social Security", you can live off it, easily. If you live long enough you're effectively living off the money stolen from other people instead of the money stolen from you, but that's an issue for ethics and the nation's finance, not personal finance.
It was found that telephone numbers could be remembered better if the exchange was last. If you look up a number, the exchange is likely to be a familiar number, one of maybe ten, while the other four digits are essentially new to you. You have a better chance of remembering the number long enough to dial it if the unfamiliar part comes first. Never implemented, probably because the nature of stepping relays made it impractical.
The "cleaner air by using ethanol" claim is made with a particular assumption, no longer valid. That assumption is that cars are set to burn too rich, and are not adjusted when the type of fuel changes. When such a car runs, some unburnt fuel escapes. Thus by adding a fuel that contains its own oxygen (ethyl alcohol, essentially partially burned ethane) the extra oxygen in the fuel causes complete combustion: no unburnt fuel escaping. The fallacy in that is that all modern cars have oxygen sensors, and will adjust their fuel-air mix to have slight excess oxygen in the exhaust regardless of the fuel type: no unburnt fuel escaping.
Oxygenated fuel is a solution for a problem that is no longer significant.
Have you any idea how expensive it is to make sugar from maple sap, and to collect that sap? There's a reason it costs over $10/quart, and it's not Big Maple Sugar bribing legislators.
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Your post is self-contradictory.
Soros is one of the slimiest persons on the planet. The only contributions he makes public are those that are in his advantage to make public.
A hand crank-generator-battery system does not require care to prevent damage to the battery in most cases. The battery's IV curve takes care of all the limiting required, and you're not going to overcharge the battery because it takes one hell of a lot more cranking to overcharge the battery than it does to pump it up enough to get it to run for a few minutes.
Fees include application and maintenance, not just issuance. It costs money to run the patent office, and these fees bear some relation to the costs incurred, which is as it should be.
If it's bad, we'll be seeing the bastard son of Black Hole and Tron. If it's good, it'll be due to plot, directing, acting, and avoiding the temptation to think like children. Disney is a professional organization that caters to a large variety of audiences, and there's a fair chance that they won't screw the pooch.
With Kristen Johnston and French Stewart? I'm there, man.
Episode IV was a breakthrough in SF films that set a standard for everything that followed. The immense new vision far overwhelms the importance of the more mature themes and defeatist attitude of Episode V.
I would have been delighted to see Lando die. His causing Han's suffering far outweighs any good he did later. Buckling under pressure is not the mark of a hero.
The pod racers are technically brain-dead. Even in the magical pseudo-science universe of Star Wars, the physical configuration is below moronic. It's emblematic of the massive stupidities that permeate episode I and make it painful to watch.
It was Richard Nixon who said to those whose support of him was inadequate, "Watch what I do, not what I say". Well, here's Obama, who'll say anything to maintain his support by his dupes: he has no intention to do anything except increase his own power.
Between 1995 and 2011 the prices of gold has risen 310%. In other words, the price of planting an acre has remained constant in terms of real money.
Tombaugh. And another Disney pet, Figaro.
I'm fed up with this childish singsong. If you aren't learning within a couple of months after birth, you're brain damaged.
That's because the modern understanding of "morality" is "pious self destruction".
The people who support government-issued fiat currency are supporting the government's ability to defraud the holders of that money by inflating it. Any change, or no change, involves winners and losers, so the complaint that gold investors would get rich is invalid and indicative of jealousy.
If an individual can use gold in private purchases of goods and services, it is likely to escape government notice and taxation.
The proper phrase is "glosses over". Rand clearly states that defense is one of the few valid functions of government; so you're just lying like most of her critics.
"Ayn Rand" was her pen name. She was married to Frank O'Connor, and it probably would have been ILLEGAL for her to apply for benefits under the name Ayn Rand.
The US already has enough federal holidays, but I will gladly support Chinese New Year if we drop Martin Luther King's birthday. Rabble rouser.
You should sue the schools that claim to have educated you.
Do you know what a corporation is? That it is a different concept than "company" or "business"? Do you understand that most charities are incorporated?
Not that I think the system is good, but if you are healthy, live in a low cost of living area, own your own home, aren't a spendthrift, and have accumulated a lifetime's work worth of "Social Security", you can live off it, easily. If you live long enough you're effectively living off the money stolen from other people instead of the money stolen from you, but that's an issue for ethics and the nation's finance, not personal finance.
It was found that telephone numbers could be remembered better if the exchange was last. If you look up a number, the exchange is likely to be a familiar number, one of maybe ten, while the other four digits are essentially new to you. You have a better chance of remembering the number long enough to dial it if the unfamiliar part comes first. Never implemented, probably because the nature of stepping relays made it impractical.
The "cleaner air by using ethanol" claim is made with a particular assumption, no longer valid. That assumption is that cars are set to burn too rich, and are not adjusted when the type of fuel changes. When such a car runs, some unburnt fuel escapes. Thus by adding a fuel that contains its own oxygen (ethyl alcohol, essentially partially burned ethane) the extra oxygen in the fuel causes complete combustion: no unburnt fuel escaping. The fallacy in that is that all modern cars have oxygen sensors, and will adjust their fuel-air mix to have slight excess oxygen in the exhaust regardless of the fuel type: no unburnt fuel escaping.
Oxygenated fuel is a solution for a problem that is no longer significant.
Have you any idea how expensive it is to make sugar from maple sap, and to collect that sap? There's a reason it costs over $10/quart, and it's not Big Maple Sugar bribing legislators.